{"id":680954,"date":"2026-01-16T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:32:14","slug":"4-best-plays-from-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/680954\/","title":{"rendered":"4 best plays from Jacksonville Jaguars’ 2025 NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 15, 2026, 9:20 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

With more wins than any Jaguars team<\/a> since 1999, this year\u2019s season was packed with highlights for Jacksonville on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at four of the most thrilling plays from this past year.<\/p>\n

Parker Washington\u2019s 63-yard catch-and-run<\/p>\n

Facing third and three with a seven-point lead midway through the 3rd quarter, failure to convert a first down would have handed the ball back to the AFC-leading Broncos<\/a> offense with a chanceto march down the field and tie the game.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars<\/a> dialed up a short pass in the right flat to Parker Washington, who immediately turned upfield and made two diving Denver defenders miss.<\/p>\n

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It was at this moment, with Washington streaking down the sideline without a single orange jersey visible in the wide camera angle, that the game seemed to break wide open.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s 58 yards after catch \u2014 good for Trevor Lawrence\u2019s season-long completion of 63 yards \u2014 set up a Lawrence to Travis Etienne 10-yard touchdown strike on the next play.<\/p>\n

Devin Lloyd\u2019s 99-yard pick-six<\/p>\n

Late in the 3rd quarter, the Chiefs responded to 14 unanswered Jaguars points with a methodical six-minute march down the field. With first and goal at the three, Patrick Mahomes was poised to put his team up 21-14. Devin Lloyd had other ideas.<\/p>\n

Lloyd perfectly read a pass intended for JuJu Smith-Schuster, picking off Mahomes at the goal line. He then evaded three tacklers en route to a 99-yard return, including a diving effort byMahomes.<\/p>\n

Adding to the drama, Lloyd seemed to run out of gas near the end of the play. Speedy Chiefs wide receiver Tyquan Thornton caught up to Lloyd right as he crossed the goal line, threatening to punch the ball out and force a touchback. However, Lloyd held on, and the Jaguars\u2019 chance of victory jumped<\/a> from 28% to 72%.<\/p>\n

DaVon Hamilton\u2019s batted two-point conversion<\/p>\n

Jacksonville\u2019s matchup with Las Vegas came at a pivotal point in the season for the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

After a hot 4-1 start and an exhilarating MNF win over the Chiefs, they\u2019d dropped their last two in convincing fashion and were now in serious danger of dropping another game fresh off the bye to a bottom-feeder Raiders<\/a> team.<\/p>\n

After a wild, back-and-forth affair, the game headed to overtime. Jacksonville took the ball first, scoring a touchdown and taking over six minutes off the clock in the process.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas responded by moving quickly down the field and scoring with less than a minute left. Given the circumstances, there was never a question that Pete Carroll was going to go for two and the win.<\/p>\n

In a single play to decide the game \u2014 and arguably the trajectory for the second half of the Jaguars\u2019 season, DaVon Hamilton got his hand up at the perfect moment, batting down Geno Smith\u2019s would-be successful two-point conversion to an open Tyler Lockett.<\/p>\n

In terms of knowing the stakes going into a play, it was about as thrilling as it gets.<\/p>\n

Trevor Lawrence\u2019s Improbable MNF \u201cslip-six\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t designed. It wasn\u2019t pretty. But Trevor Lawrence\u2019s chaotic game-winning scramble into the end zone might just be Jacksonville\u2019s version of the Holy Roller or the Immaculate Reception.<\/p>\n

Needing a touchdown with thirty seconds remaining against the Chiefs on Monday Night Football, Lawrence orchestrated a masterful drive to get his offense down to the 1-yard line with first and goal.<\/p>\n

But when right guard Patrick Mekari stepped on Lawrence\u2019s foot and caused him to fall down without any timeouts, the Jaguars\u2019 chances at their first MNF win since 2011 seemed to swirl down the drain. For what seemed like an eternity, Lawrence stumbled backwards, tried to get up, and fell a second time.<\/p>\n

In the surreal next few seconds, Lawrence somehow managed to get up untouched, break a tackle, and scamper into the endzone for one of the most improbable touchdowns anyone had ever seen.<\/p>\n

For Jaguars fans, who had lost eight straight to Kansas City and dropped the only two MNF games they\u2019d been awarded in the last 14 years, it was an incredibly cathartic moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 15, 2026, 9:20 p.m. ET With more wins than any Jaguars team since 1999, this year\u2019s season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7699,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95887,96077,95886,96041,96058,95936,99481,95885,95895,95899,96309,97650,96038,95883,96046,95934,99480,95881],"class_list":["post-680954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-accessfree","tag-fl","tag-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagdavon-hamilton","tag-tagdenver-broncos","tag-tagdevin-lloyd","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagjuju-smith-schuster","tag-taglas-vegas-raiders","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagparker-washington","tag-tagpatrick-mahomes","tag-tagpatrick-mekari","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtravis-etienne-jr","tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","tag-tagtyquan-thornton","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}